The Vicar's Cross
Boxing Rock Brewing Company in Shelburne, Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
IPA - Imperial / Double Regular|
Score
6.77
|
|
British soldiers stationed in India receiving their daily beer ration would never have expected this. The Vicar’s Cross has all the bitterness a double IPA demands, yet it is remarkably smooth and well balanced.
Sign up to add a tick or review
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle: Poured a clear brown color ale with a light foamy head with minimal retention. Aroma of caramel malt with light earthy and musky hops is more or less pleasant. Taste is also dominated by caramel malt notes with dry earthy and musky hops that falls flat with some bitter notes in the aftertaste. Body is full with low to average carbonation. Ended up in the drain as the malt bill is too powerful and doesn’t allow for the hops to really shine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Bishop’s Cellar, Halifax. It pours clear deep amber with a decent off-white head. The nose is bitter-sweet, juicy, resinous, pine, stewed orange, peach, nectarine and brown bread. The taste is rather bitter, pine needles, oily, resinous, peppery spice, varnish, earth, brown bread, umami, grassy, grapefruit peel and some alcohol warmth with a lingering bitter - dry finish. Medium body and moderate carbonation. A bit more malty than I usually like my double IPAs. Decent nonetheless.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Brown bottle, 650 ml, trade with Réjean Doiron (merci!), savoured on April 19 2015; eye: brown with a caramel hue, hazy, beige head that turns into a tiny ring, average lacing nose: grapefruit, resinous hops, pine; mouth: grapefruit, resinous hops, pine, malt, average astringency, dry finale in grapefruit, medium-full body, good carbonation, rather bitter, slightly harsh texture; overall: nice surprise FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 650 ml, 8,5 %, échange avec Réjean Doiron (merci!), savourée le 19 avril 2015; œil : brune avec une teinte caramel, trouble, couverture de mousse beige qui se transforme en un petit anneau, dentelle moyenne; nez : pamplemousse, houblon résineux, pin; bouche : pamplemousse, houblon résineux, pin, malt, astringence moyenne, finale sèche en pamplemousse, corps moyen-corsé, bonne carbonatation, plutôt amère, texture très légèrement rugueuse; en résumé : belle surprise
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
On tap at The Maxwells Plum in Halifax Great grapefruit and citrus aroma and flavor with just a hint too much caramel to back up a DIPA